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Re: New A-EON Sound Card for Classic Amigas
« on: November 19, 2013, 11:38:36 PM »
Can someone explain the basic functions of and the advantages to this device?
I have been using standard sound chips too long and I'm baffled as to why you would want something like this.
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Re: New A-EON Sound Card for Classic Amigas
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2013, 11:45:31 PM »
OK...but MP3 decoding can be done with one dirt cheap chip.
Why the programmable logic?
And, frankly, these days I'm more interested in FLAC.
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Re: New A-EON Sound Card for Classic Amigas
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2013, 03:12:12 AM »
Quote from: amigakit;753129
The chip on board does FLAC too

Here's the information on the sound card:


http://www.a-eon.com/18-10-2013-2.pdf

That is nice.
I have never gotten used to using a compression scheme that guarantees lower quality.

I'm still not sure I understand the hardware, but since Trevor is having a version made for a PCI-E expansion slot, if its useful we'll be able to use it in more than the X1000.
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Re: New A-EON Music Card for Classic Amigas
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2016, 05:34:08 PM »
Quote from: BSzili;806463
Why does the existence of Vampire make offloading audio decoding from the CPU a bad idea? :confused:


Because of the bottleneck created by addressing this card outside of the fpga.

It is actually going to slow accelerators like the Vampire down.
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Re: New A-EON Music Card for Classic Amigas
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2016, 05:38:29 PM »
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Hi

We have switched a few months ago to two new developers. Hopefully we will have some updates from their hard work.  

The hardware has been complete and is manufactured for some time.


"Hardware has been complete and is manufactured..."

Scary.
Just how much Aeon hardware is beeing stockpiled right now?
X5000 boards, Prisma boards, Tabor boards....

Instead of throwing more money at hardware development, isn't it time to push software development a little harder?
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Re: New A-EON Music Card for Classic Amigas
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2016, 08:09:18 PM »
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Did you read our AmigaDeveloper.com Team announcement?  We have been heavily investing in software development with a team of 17 software developers working earnestly.


Yes, I am impressed with that.
AmigaKit and Aeon are obviously sincere in trying to promote software development.

It is a pity that they are relying on Hyperion for OS development when Hyperion's primary developers admit to only working on the project "a couple of hours a week".
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Re: New A-EON Music Card for Classic Amigas
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2016, 10:59:35 PM »
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Let's hope that they're not doing it on purpose.
What all this mean is that if you pay good money to good developers they deliver.

Kamelito


My guess would be that they are devoting as much time to it as is financially practical.
If they were paid to work on it full time...
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Re: New A-EON Music Card for Classic Amigas
« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2016, 05:57:30 PM »
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I know exactly what will happen if we released with a basic beta driver. People would complain.


Amigans complain?
Heck, you know they are going to do that anyway. ;)
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